These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Isaiah 21
Tanakh 17 verses
- 1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on, It cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.
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A grievous is declared unto me: ‘The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media! All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.’
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Isaiah 33:1 Psalm 60:3 Isaiah 24:16 Jeremiah 49:34 Isaiah 14:1-3 Jeremiah 31:25 Micah 7:8-10 Proverbs 13:15 Zechariah 1:15-16 Daniel 5:28 Isaiah 47:6 Lamentations 1:22 Jeremiah 50:34 Jeremiah 50:14 1 Samuel 24:13 Jeremiah 51:53 Jeremiah 31:11-12 Isaiah 13:2-4 Jeremiah 51:3-4 Jeremiah 51:44 Isaiah 35:10 Jeremiah 51:27-28 Revelation 13:10 Jeremiah 51:11 Isaiah 22:6 Jeremiah 51:48-49 Psalm 12:5 Jeremiah 31:20 Jeremiah 45:3 Psalm 79:11 Isaiah 13:17-18 Psalm 137:1-3 Daniel 8:20 - 3 Therefore are my loins filled with convulsion; Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bent so that I cannot ; I am affrighted so that I cannot see.
- 4 My is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; The twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.
- 5 They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink—‘Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.’
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For thus hath said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!
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And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, A troop of asses, a troop of camels, He shall hearken diligently with much heed.
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- 8 And he cried as a lion: ‘Upon the watch-tower, O , I stand continually in the daytime, And I am set in my ward all the nights.’
- 9 And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs. And he spoke and said: ‘Fallen, fallen is ; And all the graven images of her Elohims are broken unto the ground.’
- 10 O thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor, That which I have heard from of hosts, The of , have I declared unto you.
- 11 The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir: ‘Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?’
- 12 The watchman said: ‘The morning cometh, and also the night—If ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.’
- 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.
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Unto him that is thirsty bring ye water! The inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitive with his bread.
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For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, And from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
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- 16 For thus hath said unto me: ‘Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the of Kedar shall fail;
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and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished; for , the of , hath spoken it.’
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